Dar Williams - It's Alright

Live at Waterstreet Music Hall, Rochester, NY 1/21/2009

Dar Williams (Dorothy Snowden Williams, born April 19, 1967)[1] is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk.

She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, The Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.

Williams was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and grew up in Chappaqua. Williams moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1990 to further explore a career in theater. She worked for a year as stage manager of the Opera Company of Boston,[4] but on the side began to write songs, record demo tapes, and take voice lessons. Her voice teacher encouraged her to try performing at coffeehouses, but her early years performing were made difficult by the intimidating nature of the Boston folk music scene, as well as her own battle with stage fright. In 1993 Williams moved to Northampton, Massachusetts.

Discography * I Have No History (1990 - rare demo tape) * All My Heroes Are Dead (1991 - rare demo tape) * The Honesty Room (1993) * The Christians and the Pagans (1996 - EP) * Mortal City (1996) * End of The Summer (1997) * What Do You Hear in These Sounds (1997, single) * Cry Cry Cry (1998, with Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky) * The Green World (2000) * Out There Live (2001) * The Beauty of the Rain (2003) * My Better Self (2005) * Live at Bearsville Theater (2007) * Promised Land (2008) * It's Alright (EP) (2008)

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• Patty Griffin
• Ani DiFranco
• The Nields
• Shawn Colvin
• Girlyman
• Joan Baez
• and Catie Curtis.

[cruelandclumsy]

ahh full band! yes! seeing Dar tonight, and I can't wait!